Australia" & "China announce the Tesignation of their chairman, Sir Montagu Cornish Turner, after a period of 80 years service. He is be succeded by Mr, A. A. Willis, Sir M.C, Turner, who was knight ed in 1903, will be, 80 years of age thin year, "He left Winchester College in. 1877 and went to India assistant in. the well-known shipping firm of Mackinnon Bac. Kenzie and Ca., but it was not until some 30 years later that he became chairman of the Chartered Bank, He is the director of various. shipping firms, including the P. and. the' British India" Steam Naviation Companies,—Reuter.
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